How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious problems. We don't need more.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.